Mount Fuji
Throughout my visit, I've been snapping a few pictures of Mount Fuji, which has virtually become the graphic symbol of Japan. Because of the typhoon when I first arrived, the mountain has been obscured, but in the last day or two I've caught these glimpses.
Although the mountain has no snow on it at this time of year, it still is amazing. (Some of the pictures in this post look like Mount Fuji is snow-topped; however, the white in those pictures is really cloud cover.)
Three of the pictures were taken with a 200mm zoom lens from the 40th floor restaurant at the New Otani Hotel. Regrettably, you can see a bit of glare from the light reflecting off of the window.
The bottom right picture was shot from the airplane on the return flight to Tokyo from Kumamoto on October 17th. Unfortunately it was shot with a wide angle lens and then was significantly cropped to bring the mountain closer, reducing the visual clarity of the picture.
